#mcrme

[frankiecorleone]

[frankiecorleone]

[on how the reunion happened] “It was a barbecue. We did an MCR barbecue in 2017 just to get the kids together, and we hadn’t seen each other for like...two years, something like that... And um, we just kinda hung out. We didn’t play any music, we didn’t do anything like that. We were just like, ‘Why don’t we hang out anymore?’ It just took some time, you know?

“And I think maybe a year later, we got the barbecue together again, and then we played some music. And it was really fun. And I probably have a phone recording of it, somewhere, just for us. No one will ever see. But that was the first time we played anything, and we played, like maybe five or six songs...just jamming. And I think our wives were there...it was in California, at Gee’s house.

“It was nerve-wracking, like, going into it. ‘Cause it’s like, we’re friends again, we’re in each others’ lives again, but we haven’t made notes, we haven’t made noise together. Like, that could change the dynamic. Do you want to sacrifice the good...what we have now..? And it just ended up being the best thing in the world, so we were like, “Oh, this is really awesome. We should do this. This is really fun to do.

“The two years of just...kinda talking and dancing around it, and then we really, I think, decided in 2019—if we were ever going to do it, we had to do it that year because that was the shot call. We did the reunion show, and then we were like, ‘This would be fun to do again and again, if we did it on our own terms.’ We’ve been really lucky to be able to do it the way we do it.”

—Frank Iero via One Life One Chance Podcast, 31 October 2022

[frankiecorleone]

gerard stop changing lyrics. if you have something new to say release new music

[frankiecorleone]

micro fucking wave you will always be famous

[frankiecorleone]

“frankie, hold it up!”

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Other highlights from the Frank One Life One Chance Podcast from 31 October 2022:

[on new MCR music] “I don’t know about any of that. I really don’t.” 

Another mention of the 6-minute mirror of Vampires and Foundations 

Chewing gum on stage is a ‘new thing’ for him (he chews spearmint Trident) 

He heats his shoulder and wrist and uses a tendon-stretching device before every show 

He’s using an in-ear on this tour and enjoying it for the first time. He tries not to talk too much onstage because it turns into ‘standup,’ but he says he’s “always yelling in [Gerard’s] ear.”

He’s home in Jersey practicing—and then touring a little—with LS Dunes between now and the Mexico shows 

He meditates most days, and every show day 

Gerard drinks so much Coke Zero—which he calls ‘zeds’—that Frank is worried he’s going to get a kidney stone 

He called rolling a joint/packing a bowl ‘analog’ weed 

He lost a key ring of laminates in the mail when he was sending them to management to scan and somebody brought them to a signing and said they bought them for $1500 on eBay 

He has an umbrella from the Helena video 

His son Miles once told a woman in a store that she looked like Tom Petty

[frankiecorleone]

it was difficult to get a clear photo, but this drawing of a musical instrument says ‘to Uncle Mikey’

[frankiecorleone]

THEY LOVE EACH OTHER